| Pegasus Descending | |
| Author: | James Lee Burke |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Detective novel |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Release Date: | 2006 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages: | 368 pp |
| Isbn: | 1501198580 |
| Followed By: | The Tin Roof Blowdown |
Pegasus Descending is a crime novel by James Lee Burke.
Dave Robicheaux, once an officer for the New Orleans Police Department and before that a U.S. Army infantry lieutenant who fought in the Vietnam War,[1] works as sheriff's deputy in New Iberia, Louisiana. When Trish Klein, a beautiful young woman, arrives to Louisiana, passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, Robicheaux knows there's going to be trouble. Twenty-five years earlier, while drunk in Florida, Robicheaux witnessed her father, fellow Vietnam veteran Dallas Klein, executed by a group of cold-blooded robbers. Trish tries to bait Whitey Bruxal, the aging mobster responsible for Dallas's death. Meanwhile, Robicheaux investigates the apparent suicide of young co-ed Yvonne Darbonne. The two cases are linked. He and his longtime partner, former Marine and Vietnam vet, Clete Purcel try to prove it.